IT Job creations... IT job losses?

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

> Yes, and look at all those IT jobs that Microsoft created.

And actually that begs the question of where the purported savings are
in their recent advertising.

I just saw the ad where worshipful MCSEs ooh and aah over the "two
million dollars" being saved by adopting the latest version.

And it makes me wonder where's the money.  The possibilities are NOT
endless.

1.  Perhaps the new version requires fewer administrators.  In which
case the result is that the old saying gets changed...

   "If anyone ever markets a really well-documented Unix that doesn't
   require babysitting by a phalanx of provincial Unix clones, there'll
   be a lot of unemployable, twinky-braindamaged misfits out deservedly
   pounding the pavements."

      changes to 

   "If anyone ever markets a really well-documented Windows that doesn't
   require babysitting by a phalanx of provincial Windows clones,
   there'll be a lot of unemployable, twinky-braindamaged misfits out
   deservedly pounding the pavements."

Which would presumably mean that you would see NO admins feeling happy
about this; they would all be sitting worried about how to preserve
their jobs, and how to PREVENT the company from saving that two million
dollars.

2.  Perhaps the new version of Windows runs on cheaper hardware.

Of course, that would imply that the improvement has nothing to do with
Microsoft.

3.  Perhaps the Windows licenses will be millions of dollars less costly
than their predecessors.

And Microsoft remains profitable precisely how, in all of this?  Indeed,
would it not be cheaper to hold off on the upgrade for an extra year,
thereby saving even MORE than $2M?

I can't think of other ways that there would be millions of dollars in
savings, and the thing that I expect it really points to is #1.  If
Microsoft is actually being competent about this, the result would be a
huge phalanx of _unemployable_ MCSEs.  

Success in truly creating a "Zero Administration" version of Windows
would mean mass unemployment for the existing admins.  Which ought to be
scary to them...
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